Good evening, welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Extra Curriculum Classes. Take a look at the resources and let me know which ones you most would like to check out and why.
Touch-type Read and Spell is an award-winning, multi-sensory, highly accessible typing program that teaches touch-typing skills while also helping kids improve reading and spelling.
Museum of the American Revolution
Grades 2-12, with parental supervision
Discover some of the artifacts of the American Revolutionary War with this Museum website. When arriving at today’s link, start exploring items available online such as:
- Artwork – portraits of Lieutenant John Ross, Thomas McDonogh, the Comte du Perron, and other masterpieces including the March to Valley Forge and the Battle of Germantown
- Objects – muskets, swords, flags, clothing, cookware, Washington’s headquarters tent, and more
- Printed Works – A Founding Father’s Roman History, newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence, Patrick Henry’s Law Books, Common Sense and Plain Truth, poems, and more
Exhibits include historical background about the artifact and other related items to examine. Be sure not to leave this site before visiting the Learn and Explore link in the upper menu.
Here you will find many educational resources including interactive features, virtual exhibits, crafts & activities, and much more. You will also find links for Virtual Museum Tour and the Virtual Field Trip.
The Virtual Field Trip takes visitors to a page for Beyond the Battlefield: A Virtual Field Trip, “a behind-the-scenes field trip of the Museum with host Lauren Tarshis, author of the I Survived series of children’s historical fiction novels.” ‘
This field trip will take visitors to the Scholastic website and includes a downloadable Classroom Kit, a 25-minute video tour, and many more resources for your students in 2nd-8th grade. This site will make a fabulous addition to your American History Studies.
Free Homeschool Diploma Templates
Do you have any students graduating or celebrating a milestone soon? If so, and you’d like to present a diploma to them, check out our free homeschool diploma templates!
Whether your student is graduating from Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle School, High School, or another Milestone, these templates in several color choices allow you to add a personal touch by entering your student’s name and homeschool name.
All grades, with parental supervision
On this website, the San Francisco Maritime Museum provides a free virtual tour of the USS Pampanito, a WW II submarine.
The sub was built in 1943 as part of the U.S. Navy fleet of submarines that were instrumental in the Allied victory in the Pacific during World War II.
This online tour provides a glimpse of what life was like for the sailors aboard the vessel.
You can even visit some compartments that are not safely accessible on the “live” tours (the sub is docked at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf) because of the vertical ladders and confined space.
When you get to the website read the introduction and follow the instructions to take a virtual tour of the sub including the:
- Main Deck Aft
- Torpedo Room
- Motor Room
- Forward Engine Room
- Crew’s Mess and Galley
- Radio Room
- Control Room
- Pump Room
As you click on each section of the sub, a new page opens with an illustration that pinpoints the location on the sub.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
